The hatching of consciousness.

Published in: History and philosophy of the life sciences (2021)

Peter Godfrey-Smith's Metazoa and Joseph LeDoux's The Deep History of Ourselves present radically different big pictures regarding the nature, evolution and distribution of consciousness in animals. In this essay review, I discuss the motivations behind these big pictures and try to steer a course between them.

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big data
artificial intelligence
machine learning